Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1903 — Color Line In Culture. [ARTICLE]

Color Line In Culture.

A certain officer brought home with dial from South Africa an Intelligent but Illiterate Kaffir as servant. One day recently, ns he was reading a book, the colonel caught Pete peeping over his shoulders, and asked him what be wanted. “I wants ter ask yer a qnesham, sir.” “Well, what la Itr “I baa seen folks reading books and de like, an’ I Jea wants ter know which hr It yer reads—de white or de black?”